poetry mini interviews

How important is music to your poetry? Vital. Each book has a soundtrack, one that delivers a style and tone I want to feel while writing. I...

How important is music to your poetry?  Pretty important. I listen to a specific piece on a loop, or something like Ludovico Eindaudi, or Ph...

How does your work first enter the world? Do you have a social group or writers group that you work ideas and poems with? I have a couple of...

Has your consideration of poetry changed since you began? Yes and no. My “beginning” (mid-1990s) fizzled out after a few years… for a variet...

How does a poem begin? a lot of things can trigger a poem, to me is memory.

When you require renewal, is there a particular poem or book that you return to? A particular author? I always seem to turn to Seamus Heaney...

Matt Vekakis is an MFA student in poetry at the University of Florida. Their recent work has appeared in Southern Humanities Review , Atlan...